Public Health Principal

Warwickshire Public Health, part of the county council, is looking for an organised and enthusiastic person with a strong track record in managing projects that contribute to improving and protecting population health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities.

Do you have a degree or equivalent academic performance level? Do you have a minimum of 3 years’ hands‑on experience of designing and delivering complex projects and pieces of work from start to finish, within timescales? Do you have a proven ability to plan effectively, identify and monitor complex interdependencies and use resources effectively?

If the answer to these is ‘yes’, we would love to hear from you.

Following the pandemic period, we have reset our priorities and are looking to influence a wider range of services and partner organisations. Our staff are visible both online and in our office space at Shire Hall, Warwick.

We are offering a full‑time (37 hours per week) Public Health Principal role to support the Public Health Consultant and wider team in delivering activity across a broad range of priority areas. Further details will be shared with the successful candidate on appointment, but the portfolio is likely to include elements of Children and Young People’s Health and Mental Health, alongside other emerging public health priorities.

Our priorities do change over time, along with our workloads. As such, there are opportunities to get involved in other aspects of Public Health work, and to collaborate with team colleagues as well as people in other services and our communities. We support in‑house learning and development and are committed to developing our staff to become high‑performing public health practitioners.

Public Health Principals are very important members of the core public health team and service. The successful candidate will be a first point of contact for advice; a skilled partner and networker with the ability to engage with a wide range of people; adept at contributing to the development and implementation of public health work programmes; comfortable with collecting evidence, analysing and interpreting data, and producing reports with recommendations;

an advocate of public health approaches, prevention and the reduction of health inequalities.

• Ability to undertake work that supports a strategic public health approach to population health and wellbeing, and to act as a partner and enabler when working with other services and agencies, within specified work streams and timescales.
• Ability to ensure that change is managed effectively by leading public health change work with stakeholders in cross‑sector organisations and communities.
• Ability to deliver and contribute to projects and programmes of work that aim to reduce health inequalities, using collaborative and evidence‑based approaches.
• Ability to proactively build networks and seek opportunities to influence others; to promote public health preventative approaches that improve population health and wellbeing; to collect and share knowledge and ensure public health datasets are complete.
• Educated to degree level or above, or equivalent academic performance level

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;

Public Health Principal

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit:
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